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Sprint Phone DiscussionenSat, 10 Dec 2016 04:06:25 GMTvBulletin60http://www.howardforums.com/images/hofo2013/misc/rss.pnghttp://www.howardforums.com/
Wifi Calling?http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1891130-Wifi-Calling?goto=newpost
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 02:28:38 GMTI Just Picked Up A Brand New Galaxy S7 And Im Having Issues Setting Up The WiFi-Calling Capability, I Keep Recieving A Generic Error Message Stating That It Cannot Be SetUp.. Has Anyone Else Encountered This?, How Did You Fix It If So?, Is There A Fix Or Is My Device Faulty?... Should I Go Back...

I Just Picked Up A Brand New Galaxy S7 And Im Having Issues Setting Up The WiFi-Calling Capability, I Keep Recieving A Generic Error Message Stating That It Cannot Be SetUp.. Has Anyone Else Encountered This?, How Did You Fix It If So?, Is There A Fix Or Is My Device Faulty?... Should I Go Back Into The Sprint Store And Ask For Help? :Confused [emoji84] [emoji79] [emoji82]

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Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:39:13 GMTInvest in what?
Not so sure what to make of this, let the speculation begin.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/06/trump-says-softbank-will-invest-50-billion-in-the-us-aiming-to-create-50000-jobs.html
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Sun, 04 Dec 2016 23:49:41 GMTMy roommate and I both have Sprint phones for over 8 years and very happy. All over Los Angeles the calls work great and the network is solid.
For the past month ONLY from a specific location (home), and ONLY WHEN CALLING Verizon users, the recipient hears nothing but static. We can hear the...

My roommate and I both have Sprint phones for over 8 years and very happy. All over Los Angeles the calls work great and the network is solid.

For the past month ONLY from a specific location (home), and ONLY WHEN CALLING Verizon users, the recipient hears nothing but static. We can hear the callers. They cannot hear us and have to call back.

My day-job is in tech support so I’ve been trying to trace a pattern to help Sprint troubleshoot. This issue doesn’t happen with AT&T or T-Mobile recipients – Only outbound calls to Verizon recipients or Verizon MVNO users. I’ve tried reporting it to Sprint via the App as well as the phone support but nothing is changing and it’s been going on for only about 1 month.
I make a lot of business calls from home and some of my customers keep telling me my phone is broken… except since it’s happening from two devices I know it’s not the phones. When they call us back, we can both hear each other fine.
When the issue occurs (which is several times a day) I’ve started asking people what carrier they have. This is ONLY affecting Sprint to Verizon handoff… And yes our phones are up to date in every way. He has an iPhone I have an LG G5. Anyone have any ideas? I’m thinking local tower issue but I have no idea how to relay all these details to someone at Sprint who can investigate.

One more thing: I've tried forced 3G on my LG G5 instead of 4G LTE and it still happens.

I have seen nothing in my market, no densification. Only T-Mobile and Verizon invest in small cells here. at&t has a scattered few around colleges but that is about it. I still don't see 100'+ small cells being approved in many places.

I hope at&t and sprint decide to work with Crown Castle in my market at least.

]]>Sprint03 Squalo GThttp://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1890668-Keep-Sprint-SERO-PREMIUM-500-vs-TMobile-Family-PlanCan no longer pay full retail? Wtf?http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1890625-Can-no-longer-pay-full-retail-Wtf?goto=newpost
Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:20:40 GMTGot the same perfect approval like I had when I left Sprint a few years ago.
I came in to my local corp store in Tallahassee to sign up for a hotspot. I had my device and plan selected beforehand. I was a little disappointed that the device ended up being out of stock, so I chose an alternate....

Got the same perfect approval like I had when I left Sprint a few years ago.

I came in to my local corp store in Tallahassee to sign up for a hotspot. I had my device and plan selected beforehand. I was a little disappointed that the device ended up being out of stock, so I chose an alternate.

All was going well until it came time to pay and leave. I know contracts are out the window, so I was fully prepared to pay retail.....except I wasn't given that option.

The sales cat didn't care what the signage said, and refused to sell me the device unless I went on a easy payment plan.

wtf sprint?

Sales cat said I could only do full retail online, but showing him the website, it shows full retail must be done in store only.

I need all 5 lines I am looking for some advice, and to talk about this deal.

The discount only works till 1/2018 so it's only a year I don't really want to be trapped into $250/mo when the year is up. I have 4 BYOD and I am porting an in contract VZW phone (5s) so I am trying to tap as many offers in as I can.

This is for new and existing customers so is my logic valid here?

Buy a new iPhone 7 from BB, finance it and take the $250 GC offer. Port the VZW line to this phone.
I can't get this plan from BB so take the 25gb/$50 offer just to be safe.

After I have it in my hands call in and switch to the Unlimited* plan (existing customers) then BYOD my other 4 phones (currently on RingPlus)

Submit my info via the switch website for the VZW contract payout and give back the VZW iPhone 5s.

Payoff the financed iPhone balance.

Have a year of Sprint service at $100/mo, pay off my VZW ETF, have $250 to waste on something I don't need at BB.

I've got a project where I need mobile data, and need a public IP for access and remote control. Most every carrier now is forcing users behind a CGNAT, which saves precious address space, but totally breaks the internet.

My googling has led me to Sprint as a possible option. I see a crapload of news releases from the 2012 era about static ips being available, but not a peep since then. Plenty of posts here from the same time frame about how the static is also public. Perfect...except for the whole 4 years ago part.

Stores are useless, and fail to understand the concept of outside versus inside addresses.

Can any Sprint users confirm the continued existence of the $3/mo static ip? If so, I'll be quickly ordering a hotspot. :)

Ok, I'm in a mess, short version is my Phone's battery stopped charging and swelled so big it popped the back off, This has happened with 2 phones so far (Samsung Note 2 + Samsung Note 4) and considering the latest battery issue (Samsung Note 7) I'm thinking it would be smart instead of just getting OEM Samsung batteries, I need to go with a Zerolemon or Mugen...

But those cost a lot of money and I'm already behind on my bills... and I currently am paying ~$65/month for a phone plan I cant use.

I have an iPhone 4S that my mother had on Sprint's *prepaid* service. Is there any trick to getting it to work on my *postpaid* service? (The rep said not, but I know there are often workarounds along the lines of unlocks)

btw, the iPhone *is* jailbroken.

Please help and thanks!

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Sat, 19 Nov 2016 03:41:02 GMTWas looking at a friends account who has 50 percent off verizon 8 gb plan
I notised they used 21 gb meaning they used 13 gb on slowerd data. How can that be. Maybe they are not appplying the slow downs. What you think about this
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Was looking at a friends account who has 50 percent off verizon 8 gb plan
I notised they used 21 gb meaning they used 13 gb on slowerd data. How can that be. Maybe they are not appplying the slow downs. What you think about this

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Sat, 19 Nov 2016 02:02:08 GMTThis sounds like a really good deal!
If you live in an LTE covered area this would come in handy.
Of course it would be almost impossible to use that much data on 3G.
Anyone have any experience with this plan?Attachment 146697 (http://www.howardforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=146697)

This sounds like a really good deal!
If you live in an LTE covered area this would come in handy.
Of course it would be almost impossible to use that much data on 3G.

Data and SMS worked fine. We mostly iMessaged each other (data channel of course).

My phone is iPhone 6S on Verizon. This phone when manually selected as Movistar could receive voice but could not place calls. Inbound had no calller Id - everything "Unknown". Had good results manually selecting Telcel. But our Sprint phone only permitted Movistar.

Standard workaround for voice was hotel wifi with wifi-calling which did work fine.

Overall - delighted to communicate for a week in Mexico (mostly text messaged each other) without addl. cost

I ported from MetroPCS to Sprint over a month ago, and I've been plagued with random issues related to incoming text and calls. I work in IT and I've tried to resolve this myself to no avail. At first, I thought it was my device (iPhone 7 bought at Sprint), then I thought it was my coverage, but now I'm thinking it has something to do with my number port. This is the first port I've ever done and the number originated from MetroPCS.

Text messages will be delayed 6+ hours if they come in at all, most calls go directly to voicemail and don't even notify me on the handset that I had a call come in. When I use sites like Fone Finder, the number still shows that it's owned by MetroPCS. I've submitted to Sprint Zone without reply.

When I restart the whole phone, more times than not my old text messages start coming in within a few seconds but it seems I have to now do this every hour if I want text messages to come in -- and one minute a call will come through to me, and the next it's straight to voicemail. All of my outbound calls work, data works, 4 out of 5 dots of LTE, and so forth.

What should I do next? I would hate to imagine I'd need to port my MetroPCS number out of Sprint, to Google Voice, and then re-roll an original Sprint number? I know a lot about my device, but next to nothing about how porting works or why it would be causing me issues over 30 days later (on and off). I've done PRL updates (##873283#) and even re-registered my handset (##25327#) with no improvement.

Thanks in advance for your help! Everything else with Sprint has been fantastic.